Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price war? We don't want a fight. It would be very hectic," said Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia's oil minister. But chaos is exactly what the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries produced last week when several members of the group threatened to launch an all-out campaign of slashing prices to boost OPEC's declining share of the world oil market. The pronouncement sent petroleum traders into a temporary selling frenzy. On the futures market in New York City, the January-delivery price of West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark crude, took a record two-day plunge...
...which found the suitcase crammed with top-secret papers, some on Chinese spy operations in the U.S. Prosecutors concluded that Henderson-Pollard had planned to offer the goods to the Chinese. Her attorneys said that she had intended only to meet with the Chinese in an effort to launch her own p.r. project. Government prosecutors did not buy the explanation. "What better way to further her new career in public relations," they asked, "than to provide this type of would-be client with classified information...
...temperature of the blood will be monitored in orbit by Representative William Nelson (D-Fla.), whose district includes the Cape Canaveral launch site...
...shuttle, which will be manned by a crew of seven, is scheduled to launch on December 16 from the Kennedy Space Center...
...good thing that the chairmen of the Democratic Party have joined the rest of the country in recognizing Reagan's appeal. It goes without saying that it would be a bad move for the party to launch personal attacks against a man who has come to define the presidency for significant segments of the American electorate...